This fun, fantastical writing prompt is a great way to practice persuasive writing, an important part of upper-elementary composition.

Do you remember your favorite Christmas experience? Get your little writer to practice her creative writing with a fun prompt.

What if you were the last person on earth? Give your child some fun writing practice with this sci-fi writing prompt.

In this activity, students will consider different strategies for coming up with titles, and practice crafting them for various pieces of text.

Encourage students to explore the impact of using vivid verbs and adjectives on a simple description, then practice revising a phrase on their own.

Practice composition skills and help the reporter get his review of Delicious Treats bakery together sentence by sentence sequencing his points into order.

If your student is experiencing some writer's block, give her a fun activity to practice descriptive writing! She'll write about if she owned her own shop.

This activity will afford your fourth graders the chance to think about the claim they want to make in their literary essays and give them practice writing an intro paragraph.

Use this resource with your students to practice identifying relationships between words. As your students complete the analogies, they will notice synonym relationships.

Your fourth grader can practice story sequencing and flex their reading comprehension by putting the paragraphs in order to tell a story beginning to end.

Help your students write letters to a pen pal, faraway relative, and others! This letter template gives students practice writing formal letters — like persuasive or business correspondence — and friendly, informal letters.

Do you want your students to have confident, informative discussions? Build student discourse and writing confidence with these comparison sentence frames! Students will use sentence and paragraph frames to practice comparing two nouns of their choice.

Use this exercise with your students to pick out facts that would support a paragraph about spring cleaning

In this worksheet, children read the article and circle each misspelled word, then correctly spell each one.

The first half of Dotty's story is here, but the second half is missing! Can your child come up with her own ending to complete the page?

Boost reading comprehension skills with this language arts worksheet. Kids read the story, then use clues from the story to write their own conclusion below.

This graphic organizer will help your young writers organize and explain their supporting evidence.

These example literary responses model how to cite and explain evidence to support a claim.

Students will look over a sample reading response letter and identify important elements in the text.

After students have learned about reading response letters they can use this checklist to polish their own letter.

Introduce your students to the five parts of an effective argument.